Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25b01b374032f505…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c28814dcb3fb8390196722b68627d788 SHA-1: de0e8f780b807d957aa9597882d18b9e1ef3bf7b SHA-256: 25b01b374032f5055e600e4071b537759556001e78bbe955c9259a64df4f6a28
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ca+cpt+books+pdf+2020'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, many hosted on shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ca+cpt+books+pdf+2020 In PDF document text
    • http://files.spillwaycollective.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069789/344e62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goucherdocc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/1278076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sanmarinogirlscouts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453215/8875701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lotusranch-homes.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407263/5117865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanegolez.thetinyjungle.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740748/658abf91bf5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2023/8503/files/88519214453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6366/5062/files/45122360298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3009/3728/files/pubipulemiwiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/sovodetadigonujunavapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9901/2766/files/didafezetaxakelabukewiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/50046754058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0538/6657/files/28965480413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3319/8745/files/2555000044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2691/3179/files/remington_870_express_tactical_shotgun_walmart_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0119/0299/files/xunuluvamonenapekesisifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5412/1635/files/kukelaregomiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3308/4575/files/55345792549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7287 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 88cae26229a6670e5542c8356b4b62bdc19e289faf76a66fcbe642fb1165d8ed
font_01_sfnt_off000084ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84EE 2320 bytes
SHA-256: e18682b3fd46480e9666d503c4d562864582807b4e0cbc1ca2988c903de9febe
font_02_sfnt_off00008f40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F40 14932 bytes
SHA-256: c4c1b61f0490b4626bfb2e46fcaebfc4f52c811a083f335c5178849f87dfc1f4
font_03_sfnt_off0000bda6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDA6 16224 bytes
SHA-256: c3f93d69e3cb30c81ae8f35965ac9f1a1a35941069675b7c0fcc3f03c8d11774